News in from Wilum Pugmire, who had it from S.T. Joshi…
“I Am Providence is coming out in a trade paperback edition, probably late this year.”
I Am Providence, trade paperback due late 2012
26 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Category Archives: New books
Another Lovecraftian fiction anthology on the way…
19 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in New books
Another door-stopper Lovecraftian fiction anthology announced…
S.T. Joshi’s blog updates
16 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
A new blog post was made yesterday by S.T. Joshi…
“I was pleased to be asked by Scarecrow Press to initiate a series of scholarly or academic books on weird fiction. The series will, I believe, be called The Literature of the Supernatural.”
And the much-anticipated ‘heavily illustrated’ version of the biography, H.P. Lovecraft: Nightmare Countries, seems to be progressing well. I’m certainly really champing at the bit for that one.
[ Hat-tip: Wilum Pugmire ]
Matt Timson talks Lovecraft comics construction
13 Tuesday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Matt Timson has a fascinating new illustrated interview over at Forbidden Planet. It details how he goes about making a Lovecraft comic-book adaptation, including the use of 3D software (in this case the free Google Sketchup) for exactly posable reference images…
Verminomicon
05 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Verminomicon: a Field Guide to the Vermin of Yuggoth; Abominations of a Haunted World (Raw Dog, 2012) is a new illustrated book featuring the sculptures of Anthony DeBartolis…
“In a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft, Verminomicon showcases the imagination and skill of sculptor Anthony DeBartolis who has spent years crafting more than thirty different species of vermin from Yuggoth. This disturbingly beautiful volume not only explores the multidimensional menace of the fungoid Mi-Go race established in “The Whisperer in Darkness,” but expands on Lovecraft’s twisted vision—at the reader’s peril. Full-color images of DeBartolis’ sculptures are paired with descriptive text from author John Edward Lawson to deliver a field guide of diabolic scope that also details the story of a scientist caught up in the Mi-Go plot against humanity.”
Pre-ordering now.
The Fantastic World of H.P. Lovecraft
08 Wednesday Feb 2012
Posted in New books
What seems to be a leading Brazilian website for Lovecraft, SiteLovecraft.com has a new book due soon, and the editors are now soliciting pre-orders for their 400-page The Fantastic World of H.P. Lovecraft [my translation of the title]…
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The Queer Uncanny
07 Tuesday Feb 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Just published, The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic is a book which examines queer fiction from 1980 to 2007. It joins last year’s The Lesbian Fantastic: A Critical Study of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal and Gothic Writings.
Lovecraft Anthology 2
31 Tuesday Jan 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Here’s a peek at the cover of The Lovecraft Anthology Vol.2. It’s a 128-page anthology of comic book adaptations, edited by Dan Lockwood and due from Self Made Hero in March 2012. Judging by the choice of cover illustration (it seems brave of Self Made, not to put tentacles on the cover) we get a comics adaptation of “The Terrible Old Man”. Also…
Pat Mills and Attila Futaki (“The Nameless City”), Ben Dickson and Mick McMahon (“The Picture in the House”), Jamie Delano and Steve Pugh (“Pickman’s Model”).
Wilum Pugmire looks at the Annotated Holmes, reveals Annotated Lovecraft
25 Wednesday Jan 2012
Wilum Pugmire takes a look at the kind of sumptious production values we can expect from the just-announced New Annotated Lovecraft edition — set to be published by W.W. Norton in 2015…
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How far Lovecraft’s work has come, from being published only ephemerally and on the cheapest woodpulp paper of the pulp magazines. Although I guess Norton will have to use the public domain texts, and not Joshi’s revised and corrected texts?
New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft announced for 2015
24 Tuesday Jan 2012
Posted in New books
A Sherlock Holmes specialist named Leslie S. Klinger has reportedly announced he is working on a New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft volume, for mainstream publisher W.W. Norton, due out in 2015. He’s a U.S. lawyer who has previously crafted The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Vols. 1 & 2, The Short Stories, and Vol. 3, The Novels (2004), and The New Annotated Dracula (2008), both published in sumptious-but-affordable doorstopper editions by W.W. Norton. I’m a fan and not a scholar of the Holmes stories, and I have little interest in vampires, so I have to say that Klinger is a name that has passed me by until now. I haven’t delved into it very deeply, but there appears to be some controversy around his annotated volumes. Wilum Pugmire reports on Facebook that… “S.T. [Joshi] figures that most of the annotations in the [Klinger] Lovecraft volume will be culled from his own commentary”.
Grotesque Animals (1872)
21 Saturday Jan 2012
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts, New books
Monster Brains unearths an online copy of Edward William Cooke’s Grotesque Animals (1872).
WSJ on As If and Lovecraft
21 Saturday Jan 2012
Posted in New books
The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf’s Tom Shippey reviews As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (Oxford Uni Press, 2012)…
“Mr. Saler counterpunches vigorously against the whole edifice of literary snobbery [against SF, fantasy and the weird]. What he has to say is so self-evidently right that the fact he has to say it makes one wonder how the critical profession has managed, for so long, to cultivate such a large blind spot. His book should be essential reading in every graduate school of the humanities. But it’s much more fun than that recommendation suggests.”